Jani Erola
jani.erola@utu.fi +358 29 450 2157 +358 40 512 5286 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: 497 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8008-7032 |
Areas of expertise
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
socioeconomic inheritance, social moblity, social class, education, income, inequality, life course
Research community or research topic
INVEST Research Flagship
INVEST Research Flagship
Biography
Jani Erola is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku and the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center (invest.utu.fi). His research interests include intergenerational social mobility and socioeconomic inheritance, social class and stratification, family formation, sociological research methods, welfare state attitudes and social scientific publication patterns. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. He is a former PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)", the editor of Acta Sociologica and the president of the Westermarck Society, the Finnish sociological association. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher".
Jani Erola is Professor of Sociology at the University of Turku and the director of INVEST Research Flagship Center (invest.utu.fi). His research interests include intergenerational social mobility and socioeconomic inheritance, social class and stratification, family formation, sociological research methods, welfare state attitudes and social scientific publication patterns. His publications on these topics have appeared in major social scientific journals such as Social Science Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Sociology, Acta Sociologica, Journal European Social Policy and Demography. He is a former PI of ERC Consolidator Grant Project "Intergenerational Cumulative Disadvantage and Resource Compensation (INDIRECT)", the editor of Acta Sociologica and the president of the Westermarck Society, the Finnish sociological association. According to Prof. Erola, he originally started looking at intergenerational social mobility as an interesting side project within his PhD, but “questions of inheritance took over and became what really motivated me as a researcher".
Teaching
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
- Introductory course lectures on sociology
- Master thesis seminar
- Current topics in social inequality
Publications 
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- Skills, parental background, and changes in educational institutions (2020) Jani Erola, Valeria Breuker
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Socioeconomic background and gene-environment interplay in social stratification across the early life course (2020) Jani Erola, Hannu Lehti, Tina Baier, Aleksi Karhula
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - The pattern of educational inequality—The contribution of family background on levels of education over time and across four countries (2020) Outi Sirniö, Hannu Lehti, Michael Grätz, Kieron Barcley, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - The role of partnering and assortative mating by social origin for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014 (2020) Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Vanhempien huono-osaisuuden yhteys lasten koulupudokkuuteen (2020) Lapsiperheiden köyhyys & huono-osaisuus Johanna Kallio, Helena Hautala, Jani Erola
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Behind every successful (wo)man is a successful parent-in-law? The association between resources of the partner’s parents and individual’s occupational attainment. (2019)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Destination as a process: Sibling similarity in early socioeconomic trajectories (2019)
- Advances in Life Course Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sibling Similarities and the Importance of Parental Socioeconomic Position in Electoral Participation (2019)
- Social Forces
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The heterogeneous effects of parental unemployment on siblings’ educational outcomes (2019)
- Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tracking and sorting in the Finnish educational system (2019) Laura Heiskala, Jani Erola
(D4 Published development or research report or study )
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